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For the past few years, Gartner has been predicting the budget shift from the CIO to the CMO, as digital marketing teams have been the early pioneers of digital transformation. But while digital marketers certainly were at the forefront of what Gartner calls the digitalization of business, now CEOs realize that the ability to compete and win... More

We've got great news to share today; we are announcing that Acquia raised $50 million, the largest round of financing we’ve ever completed.
The round is led by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), one of the world's top investors in our space. They have made various great investments in Open Source (MongoDB, Mulesoft, etc.) as well as SaaS companies (SalesForce, Workday, Box, etc.).
With the new funding, we can continue to go after our vision to help many more organizations with their digital platform and digital business... More

Introduction
Patching software is a common practice in open source software that enables developers to fix bugs and implement features within their projects, independent of the upstream software’s development cycle. The offset of this approach is that it can become cumbersome to maintain and re-apply patches as the upstream software continues to fix bugs, implement features and fix security vulnerabilities.
With Drupal, patches can be better managed with an automated tool called Drush Make. This tool allows you to define a list of patched upstream (contrib) software and can aid the automated... More

Today’s digital marketers are expected to deliver large numbers of digital experiences to meet the needs of their organizations. Websites are required fare in the modern marketing mix, and for many organizations, this can easily result in many tens or hundreds of sites. To deal with this volume, digital marketers must innovate and rapidly identify methodologies to scale the delivery of engaging websites, and ultimately, achieve the brand reach sought by their organizations.
Our answer to this digital marketer’s dilemma? A web site creation and delivery approach stemming from patterns that... More

Being in the cloud business we often hear the phrase, “don’t let your best day be your worst day.” It’s certainly a risk that any school that hosts it’s own websites faces.
A couple of weeks ago an elite, very well known school in the Northeast had a “best day / worst day” situation of their own, proving that it can happen to anyone. At 5pm on “Decision Day”, the time and day when this school notified nearly 40,000 applicants as to whether or not they were accepted for admission, traffic to their internally managed servers surged. The school knew this event would lead to increased traffic (... More

I recently did a webinar on driving conversions with Acquia Lift
and I wanted to share some of the key details from the webinar with a broader audience. In the webinar I covered my testing strategy, where to start testing, how to u se Acquia Lift
, review tests we’ve been doing here at Acquia and see the results we’ve seen. In this blog post I’m going to be focusing on where to start testing and some of the results we’ve seen.... More

Welcome to the third instalment of an 8-part blog series we're calling "The Ultimate Guide to Drupal 8." Whether you're a site builder, module or theme developer, or simply an end-user of a Drupal website, Drupal 8 has tons in store for you! This blog series will attempt to enumerate the major changes in Drupal 8. Successive posts will gradually get more technical, so feel free to skip to later parts (once they're published) if you're more on the geeky side.
Please note that since Drupal 8 is still under active development, some of the details below... More

I got the chance a while back to speak with Amitai Burstein, CTO of Gizra - a boutique development shop in Tel Aviv creating advanced web applications using Drupal, along with Node.js, Jekyll and other technologies. Amitai is the maintainer of key Drupal modules such as Organic Groups, Message and Entity Reference, and contributes to Drupal core. He showed off Gizra's intriguing solution to content deployment in Drupal in this jam's Drupal Camp session: Zariz. I was impressed! You might be, too.
"What's this jam's Drupal Camp all about?" I hear you ask... More

Over the weekend, I read the 97-page leaked New York Times Innovation Report, a manifesto for helping the Times become a more competitive business in the disrupted publishing space. While the Times is still winning at quality journalism, it has failed to get content to its readers. Its content is often being re-packaged and consumed by other publishers like Huffington Post, or is being consumed in new ways like Flipboard. And digital publishing startups like Vox Media are more agile... More

As a front-end developer for acquia.com, I've had lots of fun and challenging design requests come my way. Most recently I was tasked with swapping out the static homepage graphic with a full-width, responsive slideshow banner that can also be tested and personalized using Acquia Lift. Requirements were: content managers must be able to upload graphics, edit text and create translated versions using the user interface, must include two link-able buttons for calls to action, must have functional controls, must be full-width and fully... More

Get off the phone - Helping users through better UX and tools
In the podcast, Marek and I talk a little about his history in Drupal and technology and I introduce the idea of jam's (virtual) Drupal Camp. In his presentation, Marek Sotak, founder of Inline Manual and longtime Drupal developer, talks about giving your clients and site visitors the help they need without sacrificing all your productive time in the very first session of jam's Drupal Camp!
"What's this jam's... More

Here are some of the past week's highlights from DigitalDisruption.com, Acquia's portal for examining the impact of digital disruption.
Google Glass App Lets You Pay With Bitcoin
New Google Glass app, Ease, will let users nod and leverage voice control capabilities to pay with Bitcoin. With that being said, Ease is at the forefront of global payment solutions coming to wearable devices and Glass specifically.
"In that regard, making payments using Glass brings up some interesting possibilities. Based around gesture and voice, it... More

Cross-posted with permission from AdyaxWorld Tempus is a renowned authority on high-end watch brands. With a web presence dating back to the mid-90s, their site needed a major overhaul. This included improving performance, ad management, analytics and SEO. In 2012 they came to us asking for a modern site, cross-platform and true to their standards of luxury.
Their old site was built on TYPO3, with years of accumulated content. We integrated an elegant new design – mobile and desktop... More

What's new with Drupal 8?
The past two weeks saw the Drupal community rally together to support each other and recognize the hard work involved in making Drupal awesome, starting with the launch of the Drupal Core Gittip Team and the news that Alex Pott had been hired by Chapter Three to work on Drupal 8 development full-time. It also saw some great performance improvements in Drupal 8 and a handful of Developer Experience improvements.
Drupal Core Gittip Team
On Friday, May 2nd, Cathy Theys (YesCT) and Alex Pott (alexpott) launched the ... More

There was some exciting news announced last week as the Australian government said it was strongly considering replatforming on Drupal, potentially replacing 1200 websites used across the board of the commonwealth. The reasons for the move are accredited to lower costs, better responsive capabilities, security and accessibility compliance and the ability to leverage a massive, innovative open source ecosystem.
In a blog post, CTO John Sheridan said, “The... More